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Angular analysis of the $B^0 \rightarrow K^{*0} e^+ e^-$ decay in the low-$q^2$ region

(2015)

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LHCb collaboration, R Aaij, B Adeva, M Adinolfi, A Affolder, Z Ajaltouni, S Akar, J Albrecht, F Alessio, M Alexander, S Ali, G Alkhazov, P Alvarez Cartelle, AA Alves, S Amato, S Amerio, Y Amhis, L An, L Anderlini, J Anderson, R Andreassen, M Andreotti, JE Andrews, RB Appleby, O Aquines Gutierrez, F Archilli, A Artamonov, M Artuso, E Aslanides, G Auriemma, M Baalouch, S Bachmann, JJ Back, A Badalov, C Baesso, W Baldini, RJ Barlow, C Barschel, S Barsuk, W Barter, V Batozskaya, V Battista, A Bay, L Beaucourt, J Beddow, F Bedeschi, I Bediaga, S Belogurov, I Belyaev, E Ben-Haim, G Bencivenni, S Benson, J Benton, A Berezhnoy, R Bernet, A Bertolin, M-O Bettler, M van Beuzekom, A Bien, S Bifani, T Bird, A Bizzeti, T Blake, F Blanc, J Blouw, S Blusk, V Bocci, A Bondar, N Bondar, W Bonivento, S Borghi, A Borgia, M Borsato, TJV Bowcock, E Bowen, C Bozzi, D Brett, M Britsch, T Britton, J Brodzicka, NH Brook, A Bursche, J Buytaert, S Cadeddu, R Calabrese, M Calvi, M Calvo Gomez, P Campana, D Campora Perez, L Capriotti, A Carbone, G Carboni, R Cardinale, A Cardini, L Carson, K Carvalho Akiba, RCM Casanova Mohr, G Casse, L Cassina, L Castillo Garcia, M Cattaneo, Ch Cauet, R Cenci, M Charles, Ph Charpentier, M Chefdeville, S Chen, S-F Cheung, N Chiapolini, M Chrzaszcz, X Cid Vidal, G Ciezarek, PEL Clarke, M Clemencic, HV Cliff, J Closier, V Coco, J Cogan, E Cogneras, V Cogoni, L Cojocariu, G Collazuol, P Collins, A Comerma-Montells, A Contu, A Cook, M Coombes, S Coquereau, G Corti, M Corvo, I Counts, B Couturier, GA Cowan, DC Craik, AC Crocombe, M Cruz Torres, S Cunliffe, R Currie, C D'Ambrosio, J Dalseno, P David, PNY David, A Davis, K De Bruyn, S De Capua, M De Cian, JM De Miranda, L De Paula, W De Silva, P De Simone, C-T Dean, D Decamp, M Deckenhoff, L Del Buono, N Déléage, D Derkach, O Deschamps, F Dettori, B Dey, A Di Canto, A Di Domenico, F Di Ruscio, H Dijkstra, S Donleavy, F Dordei, M Dorigo, A Dosil Suárez, D Dossett, A Dovbnya, K Dreimanis, G Dujany, F Dupertuis, P Durante, R Dzhelyadin, A Dziurda, A Dzyuba, S Easo, U Egede, V Egorychev, S Eidelman, S Eisenhardt, U Eitschberger, R Ekelhof, L Eklund, I El Rifai, Ch Elsasser, S Ely, S Esen, HM Evans, T Evans, A Falabella, C Färber, C Farinelli, N Farley, S Farry, R Fay, D Ferguson, V Fernandez Albor, F Ferreira Rodrigues, M Ferro-Luzzi, S Filippov, M Fiore, M Fiorini, M Firlej, C Fitzpatrick, T Fiutowski, P Fol, M Fontana, F Fontanelli, R Forty, O Francisco, M Frank, C Frei, M Frosini, J Fu, E Furfaro, A Gallas Torreira, D Galli, S Gallorini, S Gambetta, M Gandelman, P Gandini, Y Gao, J García Pardiñas, J Garofoli, J Garra Tico, L Garrido, D Gascon, C Gaspar, U Gastaldi, R Gauld, L Gavardi, G Gazzoni, A Geraci, E Gersabeck, M Gersabeck, T Gershon, Ph Ghez, A Gianelle, S Gianì, V Gibson, L Giubega, VV Gligorov, C Göbel, D Golubkov, A Golutvin, A Gomes, C Gotti, M Grabalosa Gándara, R Graciani Diaz, LA Granado Cardoso, E Graugés, E Graverini, G Graziani, A Grecu, E Greening, S Gregson, P Griffith, L Grillo, O Grünberg, B Gui, E Gushchin, Yu Guz, T Gys, C Hadjivasiliou, G Haefeli, C Haen, SC Haines, S Hall, B Hamilton, T Hampson, X Han, S Hansmann-Menzemer, N Harnew, ST Harnew, J Harrison, J He, T Head, V Heijne, K Hennessy, P Henrard, L Henry, JA Hernando Morata, E van Herwijnen, M Heß, A Hicheur, D Hill, M Hoballah, C Hombach, W Hulsbergen, N Hussain, D Hutchcroft, D Hynds, M Idzik, P Ilten, R Jacobsson, A Jaeger, J Jalocha, E Jans, A Jawahery, F Jing, M John, D Johnson, CR Jones, C Joram, B Jost, N Jurik, S Kandybei, W Kanso, M Karacson, TM Karbach, S Karodia, M Kelsey, IR Kenyon, M Kenzie, T Ketel, B Khanji, C Khurewathanakul, S Klaver, K Klimaszewski, O Kochebina, M Kolpin, I Komarov, RF Koopman, P Koppenburg, M Korolev, L Kravchuk, K Kreplin, M Kreps, G Krocker, P Krokovny, F Kruse, W Kucewicz, M Kucharczyk, V Kudryavtsev, K Kurek, T Kvaratskheliya, VN La Thi, D Lacarrere, G Lafferty, A Lai, D Lambert, RW Lambert, G Lanfranchi, C Langenbruch, B Langhans, T Latham, C Lazzeroni, R Le Gac, J van Leerdam, J-P Lees, R Lefèvre, A Leflat, J Lefrançois, O Leroy, T Lesiak, B Leverington, Y Li, T Likhomanenko, M Liles, R Lindner, C Linn, F Lionetto, B Liu, S Lohn, I Longstaff, JH Lopes, P Lowdon, D Lucchesi, H Luo, A Lupato, E Luppi, O Lupton, F Machefert, IV Machikhiliyan, F Maciuc, O Maev, S Malde, A Malinin, G Manca, G Mancinelli, P Manning, A Mapelli, J Maratas, JF Marchand, U Marconi, C Marin Benito, P Marino, R Märki, J Marks, G Martellotti, M Martinelli, D Martinez Santos, F Martinez Vidal, D Martins Tostes, A Massafferri, R Matev, Z Mathe, C Matteuzzi, B Maurin, A Mazurov, M McCann, J McCarthy, A McNab, R McNulty, B McSkelly, B Meadows, F Meier, M Meissner, M Merk, DA Milanes, M-N Minard, N Moggi, J Molina Rodriguez, S Monteil, M Morandin, P Morawski, A Mordà, MJ Morello, J Moron, A-B Morris, R Mountain, F Muheim, K Müller, M Mussini, B Muster, P Naik, T Nakada, R Nandakumar, I Nasteva, M Needham, N Neri, S Neubert, N Neufeld, M Neuner, AD Nguyen, TD Nguyen, C Nguyen-Mau, M Nicol, V Niess, R Niet, N Nikitin, T Nikodem, A Novoselov, DP O'Hanlon, A Oblakowska-Mucha, V Obraztsov, S Ogilvy, O Okhrimenko, R Oldeman, CJG Onderwater, M Orlandea, B Osorio Rodrigues, JM Otalora Goicochea, A Otto, P Owen, A Oyanguren, BK Pal, A Palano, F Palombo, M Palutan, J Panman, A Papanestis, M Pappagallo, LL Pappalardo, C Parkes, CJ Parkinson, G Passaleva, GD Patel, M Patel, C Patrignani, A Pearce, A Pellegrino, G Penso, M Pepe Altarelli, S Perazzini, P Perret, L Pescatore, E Pesen, K Petridis, A Petrolini, E Picatoste Olloqui, B Pietrzyk, T Pilař, D Pinci, A Pistone, S Playfer, M Plo Casasus, F Polci, A Poluektov, I Polyakov, E Polycarpo, A Popov, D Popov, B Popovici, C Potterat, E Price, JD Price, J Prisciandaro, A Pritchard, C Prouve, V Pugatch, A Puig Navarro, G Punzi, W Qian, R Quagliani, B Rachwal, JH Rademacker, B Rakotomiaramanana, M Rama, MS Rangel, I Raniuk, N Rauschmayr, G Raven, F Redi, S Reichert, MM Reid, AC dos Reis, S Ricciardi, S Richards, M Rihl, K Rinnert, V Rives Molina, P Robbe, AB Rodrigues, E Rodrigues, P Rodriguez Perez, S Roiser, V Romanovsky, A Romero Vidal, M Rotondo, J Rouvinet, T Ruf, H Ruiz, P Ruiz Valls, JJ Saborido Silva, N Sagidova, P Sail, B Saitta, V Salustino Guimaraes, C Sanchez Mayordomo, B Sanmartin Sedes, R Santacesaria, C Santamarina Rios, E Santovetti, A Sarti, C Satriano, A Satta, DM Saunders, D Savrina, M Schiller, H Schindler, M Schlupp, M Schmelling, B Schmidt, O Schneider, A Schopper, M-H Schune, R Schwemmer, B Sciascia, A Sciubba, A Semennikov, I Sepp, N Serra, J Serrano, L Sestini, P Seyfert, M Shapkin, I Shapoval, Y Shcheglov, T Shears, L Shekhtman, V Shevchenko, A Shires, R Silva Coutinho, G Simi, M Sirendi, N Skidmore, I Skillicorn, T Skwarnicki, NA Smith, E Smith, E Smith, J Smith, M Smith, H Snoek, MD Sokoloff, FJP Soler, F Soomro, D Souza, B Souza De Paula, B Spaan, P Spradlin, S Sridharan, F Stagni, M Stahl, S Stahl, O Steinkamp, O Stenyakin, F Sterpka, S Stevenson, S Stoica, S Stone, B Storaci, S Stracka, M Straticiuc, U Straumann, R Stroili, L Sun, W Sutcliffe, K Swientek, S Swientek, V Syropoulos, M Szczekowski, P Szczypka, T Szumlak, S T'Jampens, M Teklishyn, G Tellarini, F Teubert, C Thomas, E Thomas, J van Tilburg, V Tisserand, M Tobin, J Todd, S Tolk, L Tomassetti, D Tonelli, S Topp-Joergensen, N Torr, E Tournefier, S Tourneur, K Trabelsi, MT Tran, M Tresch, A Trisovic, A Tsaregorodtsev, P Tsopelas, N Tuning, M Ubeda Garcia, A Ukleja, A Ustyuzhanin, U Uwer, C Vacca, V Vagnoni, G Valenti, A Vallier, R Vazquez Gomez, P Vazquez Regueiro, C Vázquez Sierra, S Vecchi, JJ Velthuis, M Veltri, G Veneziano, M Vesterinen, JVVB Viana Barbosa, B Viaud, D Vieira, M Vieites Diaz, X Vilasis-Cardona, A Vollhardt, D Volyanskyy, D Voong, A Vorobyev, V Vorobyev, C Voß, JA de Vries, R Waldi, C Wallace, R Wallace, J Walsh, S Wandernoth, J Wang, DR Ward, NK Watson, D Websdale, M Whitehead, D Wiedner, G Wilkinson, M Wilkinson, MP Williams, M Williams, HW Wilschut, FF Wilson, J Wimberley, J Wishahi, W Wislicki, M Witek, G Wormser, SA Wotton, S Wright, K Wyllie, Y Xie, Z Xing, Z Xu, Z Yang, X Yuan, O Yushchenko, M Zangoli, M Zavertyaev, L Zhang, WC Zhang, Y Zhang, A Zhelezov, A Zhokhov, L Zhong
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First determination of the CP content of D -> pi(+)pi(-)pi(0) and D -> K+K-pi(0)

Physics Letters B Elsevier 740 (2015) 1-7

Authors:

M Nayak, J Libby, Sneha Malde, C Thomas, Guy Wilkinson, Et al.

Abstract:

Quantum-correlated ψ(3770)→DD decays collected by the CLEO-c experiment are used to perform first measurements of F+, the fractional CP-even content of the self-conjugate decays D→π+π-π0 and D→K+K-π0. Values of 0.968±0.017±0.006 and 0.731±0.058±0.021 are obtained for π+π-π0 and K+K-π0, respectively. It is demonstrated how modes of this sort can be cleanly included in measurements of the unitarity triangle angle γ using B∓→DK∓ decays. The high CP-even content of D→π+π-π0, in particular, makes this a promising mode for improving the precision on γ.
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Development of scalable electronics for the TORCH time-of-flight detector

Journal of Instrumentation IOP Publishing 10:2 (2015) C02028

Authors:

Rui Gao, N Brook, LC Garcia, EN Cowie, D Cussans, R Forty, C Frei, T Gys, Neville Harnew, D Piedigrossi, M Van Dijk

Abstract:

The TORCH detector is proposed for the low-momentum particle identification upgrade of the LHCb experiment. It combines Time-Of-Flight and Cherenkov techniques to achieve charged particle separation up to 10 GeV/c. This requires a time resolution of 70 ps for single photons. Existing electronics has already demonstrated a 26 ps intrinsic time resolution; however the channel count and density need improvements for future micro-channel plate devices. This paper will report on a scalable design using custom ASICs (NINO-32 and HPTDC). The system provides up to 8 × 64 channels for a single micro-channel plate device. It is also designed to read out micro-channel plate tubes with charge-sharing technique.
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Erratum: Updated measurements of absolute D+ and D0 hadronic branching fractions and σ(e+e-→DD¯) at Ecm=3774 MeV [Phys. Rev. D 89, 072002 (2014)]

Physical Review D American Physical Society (APS) 91:1 (2015) 019903

Authors:

G Bonvicini, D Cinabro, MJ Smith, P Zhou, P Naik, J Rademacker, KW Edwards, RA Briere, H Vogel, JL Rosner, JP Alexander, DG Cassel, R Ehrlich, L Gibbons, SW Gray, DL Hartill, BK Heltsley, DL Kreinick, VE Kuznetsov, JR Patterson, D Peterson, D Riley, A Ryd, AJ Sadoff, X Shi, WM Sun, S Das, J Yelton, P Rubin, N Lowrey, S Mehrabyan, M Selen, J Wiss, J Libby, M Kornicer, RE Mitchell, D Besson, TK Pedlar, D Cronin-Hennessy, J Hietala, S Dobbs, Z Metreveli, KK Seth, A Tomaradze, T Xiao, A Powell, C Thomas, G Wilkinson, DM Asner, G Tatishvili, JY Ge, DH Miller, IPJ Shipsey, B Xin, GS Adams, J Napolitano, KM Ecklund, J Insler, H Muramatsu, LJ Pearson, EH Thorndike, M Artuso, S Blusk, R Mountain, T Skwarnicki, S Stone, JC Wang, LM Zhang, PUE Onyisi
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Measurement of the CP-violating phase βin B0→J/Ψπ+π-decays and limits on penguin effects

Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics 742:1 (2015) 38-49

Authors:

R Aaij, B Adeva, M Adinolfi, A Affolder, Z Ajaltouni, S Akar, J Albrecht, F Alessio, M Alexander, S Ali, G Alkhazov, P AlvarezCartelle, AA Alves, S Amato, S Amerio, Y Amhis, L An, L Anderlini, J Anderson, R Andreassen, M Andreotti, JE Andrews, RB Appleby, O AquinesGutierrez, F Archilli, A Artamonov, M Artuso, E Aslanides, G Auriemma, M Baalouch, S Bachmann, JJ Back, A Badalov, C Baesso, W Baldini, RJ Barlow, C Barschel, S Barsuk, W Barter, V Batozskaya, V Battista, A Bay, L Beaucourt, J Beddow, F Bedeschi, I Bediaga, S Belogurov, K Belous, I Belyaev, E Ben-Haim, G Bencivenni, S Benson, J Benton, A Berezhnoy, R Bernet, AB Bertolin, MO Bettler, M vanBeuzekom, A Bien, S Bifani, T Bird, A Bizzeti, PM Bjørnstad, T Blake, F Blanc, J Blouw, S Blusk, V Bocci, A Bondar, N Bondar, W Bonivento, S Borghi, A Borgia, M Borsato, TJV Bowcock, E Bowen, C Bozzi, D Brett, M Britsch, T Britton, J Brodzicka, NH Brook, A Bursche, J Buytaert, S Cadeddu, R Calabrese, M Calvi, M CalvoGomez, P Campana, D CamporaPerez, A Carbone, G Carboni, R Cardinale, A Cardini, L Carson, K CarvalhoAkiba, RCM CasanovaMohr, G Casse, L Cassina, L CastilloGarcia

Abstract:

Time-dependent CPviolation is measured in the B0→J/Ψπ+π-channel for each π+π-resonant final state using data collected with an integrated luminosity of 3.0fb-1in ppcollisions using the LHCb detector. The final state with the largest rate, J/Ψρ0(770), is used to measure the CP-violating angle 2βeffto be (41.7 ±9.6+2.8-6.3)°. This result can be used to limit the size of penguin amplitude contributions to CPviolation measurements in, for example, B0s→J/Ψϕdecays. Assuming approximate SU(3) flavour symmetry and neglecting higher order diagrams, the shift in the CP-violating phase ϕsis limited to be within the interval [-1.05°, +1.18°] at 95% confidence level. Changes to the limit due to SU(3) symmetry breaking effects are also discussed.
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